Facebook's Oculus will have to pay game developer ZeniMax Media $500 million in damages over copyright infringement and violation of non-disclosure agreement.

A US court has ordered Facebook's virtual reality subsidiary Oculus and its executives to pay game developer ZeniMax Media $500 million in damages over copyright infringement and violation of non-disclosure agreement.

The Dallas court order comes weeks after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg denied the allegations of stealing the ZeniMax technology and said that it used its own technology to create the Oculus VR headset.

Facebook bought Oculus VR for more than $2 billion in 2014 and the dispute started just after the acquisition when ZeniMax Media sued Oculus of stealing important elements of its technology.

According to a report in Variety on Thursday, ZeniMax was seeking as much as $4 billion in the case.